Yeşu 14:4

Ki̇tap (Turkish Bible)

4 Yusufun soyundan gelenler, Manaşşe ve Efrayim diye iki oymak oluşturuyordu. Levililere de yerleşecekleri kentler ve bu kentlerin çevresinde büyük ve küçük baş hayvanlarına ayrılan otlaklar dışında topraktan pay verilmedi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the children: Genesis 48:5, 1 Chronicles 5:1, 1 Chronicles 5:2

save cities: Joshua 21:2-42, Numbers 35:2-8, 1 Chronicles 6:54-81

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:6 - and shall be called Deuteronomy 12:12 - General Joshua 13:12 - these did Joshua 13:14 - General Judges 1:22 - the house

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim,.... For the birthright being forfeited by Reuben, was given to Joseph, who had the double portion, the privilege of the firstborn; by which means the number of the twelve tribes was kept up in the division of the land, though that of Levi had no share in it; and which is also a reason why they had none, that Joseph's two sons might be reckoned two tribes:

therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land; to make way for the sons of Joseph to have the double portion:

save cities to dwell [in]; and that only, for they might not sell them, as other Israelites could theirs:

with their suburbs, for their cattle, and for their substance; the Targum is,

"for all their beasts, and for their cattle;''

that is, for convenient places to put them into, and for pasturage for, them; which Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret of their larger and lesser cattle, their herds and their flocks, their oxen and sheep.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 14:4. The children of Joseph were two tribes — This was ascertained by the prophetic declaration of their grandfather Jacob, Genesis 48:5-6; and as Levi was taken out of the tribes for the service of the sanctuary, one of these sons of Joseph came in his place, and Joseph was treated as the first-born of Jacob, in the place of Reuben, who forfeited his right of primogeniture.

With their suburbs for their cattle — For the meaning of this passage the reader is referred to Clarke's note on "Numbers 35:6".